Hi all, We're having a problem with lots of floppy icons showing up on users desktops. Basically whenever a user logs on from a computer with a floppy drive built in it is automagically mounted and shows up on ALL users desktops. The links never go away and they accumulate as other users log on and off of those computers. Users cannot delete the links.
The floppy icons have dynamically generated entries in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/x-nautilus-desktop it looks like this. vbuntu:~/.nautilus/metafiles$ cat x-nautilus-desktop\:%2F%2F%2F.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <directory><file name="floppy0.volume.4" timestamp="1253553871" icon_position="64,22"/><file name="floppy0.volume.3" timestamp="1253553871" icon_position="64,102"/><file name="floppy0.volume.2" timestamp="1253553871" icon_position="64,182"/><file name="floppy0.volume" timestamp="1253553871" icon_position="64,262"/></directory> Deleting the xml file has no effect on the links. The floppys have a mount point in /media under the usersname it might look something like this. /media/doe.john/floppy0 ls is not allowed to list ownership/permissions even by root ls -la ls: cannot access floppy0: Permission denied total 8 drwxr-x--- 3 root domain users 4096 2009-09-21 08:56 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 2009-09-21 10:37 .. d????????? ? ? ? ? ? floppy0 the only way to see the correct permissions and remove this is to do: umount -fl floppy0 which then lets you do ls: ls -la total 12 drwxr-x--- 3 root domain users 4096 2009-09-21 08:56 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 2009-09-21 10:37 .. drwxr-x--- 2 root domain users 4096 2009-09-21 08:56 floppy0 then root can do rmdir floppy0 I guess I'd like an explanation of what the heck is going on and then hopefully some advice about how to tell gvfs or whatever is mounting floppies to stop. thanks! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
